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Business vehicles are higher theft risk
The Mercury
|November 14, 2025
CRIME continues to be a national scourge, and recently released statistics reveal that business-owned vehicles are a higher risk to crime than personally-owned vehicles.
Business-owned vehicles range from cargo trucks with trailers to courier vehicles delivering items ordered online.
Crime targeting these vehicles proves highly lucrative, with criminals acquiring the vehicle, the goods being transported, and the driver’s personal belongings, such as a mobile phone.
Higher risk
Tracker’s vehicle crime statistics for January to June 2025 show that business-owned vehicles are 48% more likely to be targeted than personally-owned vehicles.
This trend is largely driven by hijackings, with notable shifts in both timing and location.
Mpumalanga has emerged as anew hotspot, and incidents are increasingly occurring during the week rather than over weekends.
Gauteng leads
The Tracker Vehicle Crime Index aggregates information from Tracker's more than 1.1 million subscriptions.
This story is from the November 14, 2025 edition of The Mercury.
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